Doreen Pollack
Doreen Pollack (born March 16, 1921 in Birmingham , England ; † June 8, 2005 in Aurora , Colorado ) was a British - American speech therapist and pioneer of auditory-verbal education and newborn hearing screening .
Life
Doreen Pollack made a university degree in 1948 speech therapy ( speech pathology ) at the London University . She started her career by joining a team of audiologists in New York City who did audiometry research on preschool children. Under her guidance, newborn hearing screening was performed for the first time at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital , which is now routine and required by law in some US states.
The screening program led to the establishment of a model clinic for sound and language training for preschool children with hearing impairments. In the early 1950s, she expanded her research at the University of Denver , where she helped found the Denver Hearing Society (1950-1960).
In 1965 she became director of the Speech and Hearing Clinic at Porter Memorial Hospital . The Listen Foundation , a nonprofit in Denver, which she founded in 1970, continues to support families and children who use her methods. Parents of deaf children continued to seek advice from Doreen Pollack after her retirement in 1982.
plant
Doreen Pollack became internationally known as a speech therapist and audiologist for her research and therapy program for hearing-impaired children. Her publication on speech therapy for deaf preschoolers is one of the most widely used books in the field.
The therapy she developed, which she called Acoupedics (a method of auditory-verbal education), was a language program with which deaf children from 11 months could be taught speech with natural intonation , which was a revolutionary idea at the time. With strong hearing aids in both ears to reinforce their residual hearing, deaf children could hear vowel sounds to help them learn the language.
Auditory-verbal education is specially designed for deaf children under the age of five and has proven to be more effective than lip reading and sign language. Pollack was convinced of her method because it enabled the hearing impaired to fully integrate into the hearing world. She saw in every deaf child an individual challenge that should have the chance to learn to speak.
Publications
- Educational audiology for the limited-hearing infant and prescholler. Charles C. Thomas. Springfield, IL. 1970. 3rd edition 1997 with Donald Goldberg, Donald Michael Goldberg, Nancy Caleffe-Schenck, ISBN 0398067511
literature
- Marian M. Ernst: Auditory-verbal treatment effects on the communication skills of the deaf. ACOUPEDICS Educational Audiology Programs, Inc., Denver Dubbin, Denver, CO 1990. VHS video with text demonstrating the spoken language skills of 32 deaf children and adults acquired in the Acoupedics program.
Web links
- The Listen Foundation: Doreen Pollack
- Nancy Caleffe-Schenck: Auditory-Verbal Therapy - Developing Spoken Language Through Listening With Children Who Are Deaf
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pollack, Doreen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American Deaf Educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 2005 |
| Place of death | Aurora , Colorado, United States |